Birth, Life and Death of Party Concepts in Brussels

I don’t know what’s going on, but I think that Brussels night life is breathing at the same path as mine.
I mean, that was several weeks that I didn’t want to go out at night (remember: training hard, sleeping at night….). But then I said to myself that the week-end of 23rd November I’ll feel like partying hard.

And you know what…. There’s a tons of good parties all on Saturday night. They all decided that this very week-end is the best one for having a terrific party.

There’s the ones who are launching their new concept (Les Bals).

There’s the ones who are on this very fragile step of organising their second party (Familietrek and Manifesto), or even their third one ever (Moonlight).

Not to mention the party who’s celebrating its 3rd Anniversary (Ce N’est Pas de La Couille)….

And on Wednesday, you have a closing final party as Downtown Club’s team decided to end their concept…

And before knowing of all that I’ve already said to my friends that I’ll go to the Groovalicious party… Damned!

I have no time for everything, so I propose that we split ourselves. Aren’t we here a group of enthusiastic people (me writing, you reading)? I like to think of us as a secret society of people who want to discover what Brussels has to offer… And by the way, don’t bother going to Manifesto: it’s on guest list only and… We’re NOT!

Fortunately, on other days the agenda is more manageable: The Club Clandestine has opened its door a few months ago already. Well, in my opinion it has “clandestine” only the name.

They have tried – in the beginning – to keep the address secret, but if you lived in Brussels long enough, a click in the first picture made you recognize the venue. It used to be a café philo in the late nineties, then till recently a club so well situated in Sablons that soon or later you would end up there in the middle of the night.

Anyway, the parties the new club is organising didn’t really catch my attention so far. If I’m talking about it today is because it seems that they organise on Thursdays some unplugged session. That’s sounds a cool thing to do !

Tonight is the band Avenue…

If the Manifesto costume party is tempting, but you’re thinking twice as you dislike those “guest list only” event, you might wonder what to do with your Al Capone outfit. I know, that’s pretty specific. But if it’s the case, you might want to go to Cafe Rits for their screening of old legendary movies like The Godfather… The entry is free but the dress code is Mafia… !

On Friday night, there’s two events I really want to attend. I know I already talked to you last week about Street Artist Parole’s exhibition and I went. But this week it’s the finnissage and for the occasion he’ll be doing a performance… I can’t miss that, right?

Then, I’m curious to go to the “Knowledge Night About Brussels” to listen to all those 14 minutes length conferences given by many interesting people… I believe there’s a lot to learn!

To end this article, let me brought your attention to a recent event (I think it’s the second edition) called “We love Drama”, and held once a month for people who hate Sundays because nothing’s going on in Brussels…